At a glance 2015 : Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) : finding solutions to health disparities

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Community Health. ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health.
• Description:
  Every person deserves the chance to be healthy, but in the United States, some racial and ethnic groups have worse health than others. These health disparities do not have a single cause but many complex and connected causes, including
  
  • Social determinants, such as poverty, lack of education, racism, and discrimination.
  
  • Environment and community conditions, such as lack of resources that support physical activity or healthy eating options.
  
  • Behaviors, such as poor diet, tobacco use, physical inactivity.
  
  • Health care access, such as less availability and lower quality of medical services.
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is at the forefront of the nation’s efforts to prevent chronic disease and break down the barriers to good health. For 15 years, CDC’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program has partnered with local organizations to improve health disparities that affect racial and ethnic groups.
  
  Through REACH, funded organizations use community-driven, evidence-based, culturally tailored interventions for a broad range of health conditions. From 2009 to 2012, successful outcomes of communities were
  
  • Smoking prevalence decreased 7.5% (or an average of 2.5% per year) among non-Hispanic blacks and 4.5% among Hispanics.
  
  • In REACH communities that focused on heart disease or diabetes, the percentage of adults who reported eating five or more fruits and vegetables daily increased 3.9% among non-Hispanic blacks and 9.3% among Hispanics.
  
  • The percentage of adults aged 65 or older who had a flu shot in the past year increased 11.1%.
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  reach-aag-508.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Ethnicity Healthcare Disparities Health Policy Minority Groups
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  4 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6a03b5c022393ee388037196126dbcec18aa5d02f738b4dc5524f0bf7faa3ba1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49528/cdc_49528_DS1.pdf
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